Sentence examples for like a greasy from inspiring English sources

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Mr. de Nijs believes that they would make the restaurants smell like a greasy spoon.

"To have that on the table, looks a bit of a mess, like a greasy spoon or something".

It may look like a greasy spoon from the outside, but it's always rammed, and with good reason.

On the ferry, my dinner of salt-and-vinegar chips clenches like a greasy fist in my gut.

Or where a waitress, like a greasy whirlwind, flies unceremoniously out of the kitchen to heave water over children amusing themselves by watching a foreigner eat.

Sometimes the kitchen seems a bit too eager to astound, delivering irrelevant fillips like a greasy deep-fried scallion over a superb fillet of red snapper.

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Buying it is like scoffing a greasy Big Mac at the end of a boozy night.

Fast, full and reverse-swinging, and the off stump goes over like Robert Pires on a greasy pitch.

Scientists call the coatings self-cleaning because, once they are applied to a surface, they do much of the work of scrubbing away oily residue — like that from a greasy fingerprint.

They especially don't like it when you have a greasy face covered in acne.

My body seems sapped of strength like I'm in a greasy fast-food coma.

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